Thread: Wet Tumbling

Originally Posted by eamars

I no longer wet tumblr my 6.5 creed brass as they will peening the case mouse even for 40 minutes.

Ditto. The process also works away at the rims but that is probably not a real issue but the peening of my nicely chamfered necks saw me toss the process away.
And guess what, my groups never deteriorated.

Sure, I can understand pistol shooters for example gathering up their spent brass off the range floor and giving it a SS clean when getting home but for me, (mainly F Class these days) it's just an unecessary process.

Over the years I have continued to streamline my reloading processes, without detriment to accuracy. Intense cleaning is one process that went west.
Got carried along with the fads at the time of course, ultrasonic and SS.

However, keeping to topic, when I did clean with SS pins I used, sparingly the Frankford Arsenal snake oil that came with my tumbler. It was very effective. I dried using the Sunbeam dehydrator previously mention in the thread. The pins were dried in the oven, with permission of course. I dried them in the dehydrator a couple of time but then switched to the oven.

No, I have never put cases in an oven.

Originally Posted by zimmer

Ditto. The process also works away at the rims but that is probably not a real issue but the peening of my nicely chamfered necks saw me toss the process away.
And guess what, my groups never deteriorated.

Sure, I can understand pistol shooters for example gathering up their spent brass off the range floor and giving it a SS clean when getting home but for me, (mainly F Class these days) it's just an unecessary process.

Over the years I have continued to streamline my reloading processes, without detriment to accuracy. Intense cleaning is one process that went west.
Got carried along with the fads at the time of course, ultrasonic and SS.

However, keeping to topic, when I did clean with SS pins I used, sparingly the Frankford Arsenal snake oil that came with my tumbler. It was very effective. I dried using the Sunbeam dehydrator previously mention in the thread. The pins were dried in the oven, with permission of course. I dried them in the dehydrator a couple of time but then switched to the oven.

No, I have never put cases in an oven.

Strangely all my 9mm brasses went very well with wet tumbling and SS media. After 3 hours of tumbling there is no sign of peening at all.

Originally Posted by eamars

Strangely all my 9mm brasses went very well with wet tumbling and SS media. After 3 hours of tumbling there is no sign of peening at all.

I've never seen that issue myself and I usually tumble for two hours. I could see though for something like 6.5 Creed where people have nicely prepped their brass where that might happen.